Category: Building teams

Building teams, fostering the right culture is paramount for microservices success. Devops, Agile, Lean- all these ideas focus on enabling people to be as good as they can be. You can start helping your team regardless of your role, these articles should give you an idea how to.

When talking about microservices (or agile development), the idea of self-managed, independent teams often comes up. What is not emphasized enough is how vital this idea is to the successful adoption of such highly decoupled architecture. In this article, I will share my experiences about working with independent teams and being part of them. Continue reading “Building services requires building teams”

For these teams already using pull requests (or merge requests as they are sometimes known), this advice seems trivial. For the teams that do not use them- it may not be so simple. Let me explain why you need and how to get started.

I love working as a part of a great software development team. Thanks to my job, I also have a chance to lead such teams. In this series of blog posts titled Helping your team I would like to explore different ideas and techniques to make sure that the team you are part of is performing at its best!

Before going into specific topic, it is important to realize that you do not have to be a team lead or a senior member of the team to incite change! Introducing good ideas and championing best practices can be done by anyone. As a lead, this is your responsibility.

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